How to embed new Youtube's live video permanent URL?

Question

I stream live on youtube a lot and since yesterday I experience a weird thing:

I embedded the livestream URL in my site. it was youtube.com/embed/ABCDE

Answer 1

The issue is two-fold:

1. WordPress reformats the YouTube link
2. You need a custom embed link to support a live stream embed

As a prerequisite (as of August, 2016), you need to link an AdSense account and then turn on monetization in your YouTube channel. It's a painful change that broke a lot of live streams.

You will need to use the following URL format for the embed:

The &autoplay=1 is not necessary, but I like to include it. Change CHANNEL to your channel's ID. One thing to note is that WordPress may reformat the URL once you commit your change. Therefore, you'll need a plugin that allows you to use raw code and not have it override. Using a custom PHP code plugin can help and you would just echo the code like so:

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Let me know if that worked for you!